Stocking



'. J. LONGTIN.

STOCKING.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 10' 1919.

Patenwi Aug. 2, 1921.

m mww P WILLIAM J. LONGTIN, OPE-PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, 'ASSIGNOR TOALLEN EUSIEBY COMPANY, OF

WAYNE JUNCTION, GERMANTOWN, PHILADELPHIA,

PENNSYLVANIA, .3. CQREOBATION 0F EENNSYLVANIA.

s'rocams.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 2, 1921.

Application filed December 10, 1919. Serial No. 343,858.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILL AM J. LONGTIN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State oflennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inStockings, of which the following is a specification.

Stockings consisting of a tubular continuous knitted web, the product ofcircular knittingihachines, are provided with stout welts stitched orlooped to them, and if the knee and leg portions are made of fine yarnor. thread, the stockings are likely to tear, as distinguished fromwear, under garter strain at the knees wand more especially where thekneeportions are joined to the welts. Usually the yarn is changed andthe tubular knee portion is made of different and stronger yarn than thetubular leg portion, but this shows, and such stockings whilecomparatively free from tearing under garter strainpresent an'unsightlyappearance. In other cases the structure and appearance are the sameboth at the leg and knee portions, but such stockings frequently tearunder garter strain if made of fine yarn.

The principal object of the present invention is to overcome thesedefects or disadvantages and to provide stockings the product ofcircular knitting machines, which present the sameappearance at the legand knee portions and which will not tear at the knees under garterstrain, even when made of very light yarn or thread and of very finegage.-

continuous knitted Web, the product of a circular knitting machine, andfabricated of even fine gage and of very light yarn or thread, whichextends to the welt 5, and is joined to it. 2-, is a reinforcemenh'theproduct of splicing at the frontof the knee portion of the stocking, andthis reinforcement while inconspicuous enough not to mar the effect ofcontinuity throughout the leg and knee portions, extends to the \velt 5,and resists the garter strain and prevents tearing. The reinforcementconsists of spliced thread or yarn 3, knitted in with the regular threador yarn 4i, and it is therefore well adapted to resist garter strainwhich tends to tear, rather than to wear, the knee portions of stockingsWhile at the same time the appearance remains substantially the same asit would be if the reinforcement were not p resout, because the regularyarn or thread l, ertends up to the welt.

The structure of a stocking embodying features of the invention can bewell understood from a description of itsmanufacture on circularknitting machines but in giving .such a description it is not intendedto limit the invention to stockings embodying it and produced on anyparticular make or style of circular knitting machine.

The spllcer cam 11, is operated to put all the needles out ofcooperation with the splicer b, and I provide an additional camp,

which puts instep needles, which are the.

needles with longer butts or are equipped with jacks having the longerbutts, back into cooperation with the splicer b, so that these instepneedles knit splicer yarn or thread and regular yarn or thrcadzinto theknee portion for as many courses below the welt,

' as may be desired, whereas the portion of the stocking back of theknee is knitted of the regular yarn or thread.

I claim:

A stocking provided with a welt and consisting of a tubular-continuousknitted web of fine yarn and gage extending through the leg and kneeportions, and having at the front of the knee portion a reinforcement ofsplicing yarn extending in uniform courses with the first mentioned yarnto the welt, to, 'with the Welt, resist garter strain and present auniform appearance at the knee and leg portions.

WILLIAM J. LONGTIN,

